Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly rerouted to Russia

Re:Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly ... by digi_owl on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:27AM (#15913364)

One curious thing about 8.8.8.8 (and 8.8.4.4) is that it gets redirected to the closest Google CDN.

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Re:Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly ... by jsjohnst on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @08:31AM (#15914060)

> One curious thing

DNS is something that’s commonly Anycasted. In laymen’s terms, basically what that means is rather than 8.8.8.8 pointing to one server (or a load balanced cluster in one DC) as you might expect, it rather points to potentially thousands of servers all over the globe and the closest one (BGP route wise) is the one picked for you.

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Re:Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly ... by sp332 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @10:34AM (#15914840)

8.8.8.8 is already an IP address so DNS is not involved. The anycast is handled by just BGP.

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Re:Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly ... by kelnos on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @11:22AM (#15915179)

I think the parent meant that anycast is often used for DNS servers, not that a DNS lookup is used to find the closest Google DNS server.

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Re:Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly ... by jsjohnst on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @08:10PM (#15919191)

Kelnos was correct, the service that 8.8.8.8 provides is DNS, hence the relevance when talking about 8.8.8.8 being anycasted.

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Re:Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly ... by sp332 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @08:12PM (#15919202)

Man, I must have been asleep this afternoon because I could not figure out what a bare IP address had to do with DNS. I get it now.

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